…You are the world…Você é meu mundo…

Ganesha is still being celebrated…So here it comes another story of him…

In time Shiva and Parvati had another child and his name was Muruga. He had six heads because when he was a kid, he was cared for and nursed by six mothers who live in the sky, in the group of stars we know today as the Pleiades.

Muruga was brave but jeaulous of his brother Ganesha. “He laughs all the time and everyone likes him so much”, he used to complain.

Ganesha and Muruga had animals as their transports. Muruga had a Peacock and Ganesha a mouse.

They used to argue with each other and one day when Parvati was giving them fruit, they got into a competition.Although there were other fruits, both wanted the only mango.

Shiva seeing both competing for the fruit, asked them to go for a real competition. The first one to go around the world,gets the mango.

Murunga jumped on his peacock and flew away super fast. Ganesha on the contrary stood still. Parvati asked him if he was not going to join the race?

Ganesha smiled, placed his hands together in the gesture of namaste and walked very slowly and steadily around his parents. Then he streched out his hands and took the mango.

Shiva frowned. “What´s this? Around the world I said”.

“You are the world” Ganesha replied. ” You are mother and father of the Universe. You are its life and breath. But most of all you are the world to me”. He knelt before them and bowing down, touched his head to their feet.

At the same time Muruga got back. He heard the last words of his brother. “I might be faster but you are much more clever than me. Go ahead the mango is yours.”